Newly elected to ATSC board for three-year terms beginning in January: Christopher Homer, PBS vice president-operations and engineering, Anne Schelle, Pearl TV executive director.
Lobbyist registration: Cybernet Systems, Jackson Lewis, effective Nov. 10.
Entercom promotes Stacey Kauffman to director-sales, Entercom Sacramento ... Jason Fairchild, OpenX, named co-chair of Interactive Advertising Bureau's Programmatic Council, joining co-chairs Bob Arnold, Google, and Jason White, CBS Interactive ... Indiana Broadcasters Association names Arland Communications principal Dave Arland executive director, effective in January ... Lobbyist registrations: Harmar Mobility, Arent Fox, effective Nov. 11 ... Western Digital Corp., Arent Fox, effective Nov. 17.
Sinclair Broadcast promotes Gregory Gilleland to general manager, Ring of Honor Wrestling ... Lobbyist registrations: CloudFactors, registering on behalf of itself, effective Dec. 14 ... IT firm incCommunications Services, K&L Gates, effective Oct. 5.
FCC Public Safety Bureau Policy and Licensing Division Chief Tom Beers retired ... Sprint promotes Brian Miller to president-Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee region, and Brian Hedlund to president-Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Virginia region, though Hedlund remains director-general business sales until the new regional structure is completely rolled out next year ... As part of Crestview Partners' agreement earlier this month to buy what it described as a "significant stake" in cable operator WOW, Jeffrey Marcus, a Crestview partner, named chairman, succeeding Colleen Abdoulah, retiring as chairwoman and remaining on the board, effective Jan. 1 ... Scripps Networks Interactive promotes Senior Vice President Suzanne Underwald to that role for business and legal affairs, content distribution & marketing, new position, which includes some linear and digital operations.
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, R-S.D., promotes Nick Rossi to majority staff director, succeeding David Schwietert, leaving ... Best Best & Krieger confirms it has hired Drew Clark, ex-Kirton McConkie, as counsel, Municipal Law practice group, working on Internet technology, broadband deployment and intellectual property ... Information Technology Industry Council's IT Alliance for the Public Sector hires as senior managers, State, Local and Education Technology division Jordan Kroll, ex-Stateside Associates, and Liam Crawford, ex-National Governors Association ... Management changes at Apple: Jeff Williams promoted to chief operating officer; Johny Srouji promoted to senior vice president-hardware technologies; Phil Schiller’s role as senior vice president-worldwide marketing expanded to include responsibility for the App Store across all Apple platforms; Tor Myhren, ex-Grey Group, hired as vice president-marketing communications, effective in Q1, succeeding Hiroki Asai, retiring.
European Commission names Tiina Astola, Finnish Ministry of Justice, director general-justice and consumers, effective Feb. 1; effective immediately it names from the EC Sixtine Bouygues and Margaritis Schinas deputy-directors general, DG Communication; and moves Claire Bury to deputy director general-DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology, effective in January ... Time Inc. hires Jennifer Wong, ex-PopSugar, as president-Time Inc. Digital, new position ... Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media promotes Courtney Holt to executive vice president-head, Maker Studios, succeeding Ynon Kreiz, Maker president, leaving the company effective Jan. 11 ... Nielsen promotes Steve Hasker to global president-chief operating officer, effective Jan. 1.
Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications names Sébastien Soriano, France's electronic communications and postal regulator, chairman for 2017, succeeding Wilhelm Eschweiler, German regulatory authority BnetzA, chairman for 2016 ... Rapid7 hires Harley Geiger, leaving Center for Democracy & Technology, as director-public policy, effective Jan. 4 ... LifeLock hires Sharon Segev, ex-Elo Touch Solutions, as executive vice president-general counsel-secretary, effective Jan. 11 ... Comcast hires Mauricio Piccone, ex-Endemol Shine Latino, as senior vice president-reality programming, NBCUniversal's Telemundo ... Penthera, supplier of download-to-go video software for mobile devices, hires Daniel Taitz, ex-Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, as chief operating officer.
Univision Communications promotes Sam Abiad to senior vice president-ad sales operations and local business strategy ... Palo Alto Networks hires Naveen Zutshi, ex-Gap, as chief information officer ... BusinessWire hires Robert Markel, ex-Virgin America, as chief information security officer.
Dish Network said it promotes: Erik Carlson to president-chief operating officer, succeeding Chairman-CEO Charlie Ergen, who also had been president, and also succeeding COO Bernie Han, who remains executive vice president-strategic planning; Vivek Khemka to executive vice president-chief technology officer; Brian Neylon to executive vice president-customer acquisition and retention; Warren Schlichting to executive vice president-marketing, programming and media sales; John Swieringa to succeed Carlson as executive vice president-operations; Rob Dravenstott to succeed Swieringa as senior vice president-chief information officer; and Senior Vice President-Corporate Controller Paul Orban also named chief accounting officer ... Sprint moves Kevin Crull to president-central area, Roger Solé to chief marketing officer, John Stevens to president-central Texas region, and Tim Donahue to president-Kansas and Missouri region, and hires Michael Miess, ex-Windstream, as president-North Carolina and South Carolina region.